Android App runtime crash after update gradle plugin 3.6

Question

Android App was working with no crash, After updating the Gradle plugin to version 3.6 faced the runtime crash below:

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: my.package.app, PID: 9420
    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroidx/appcompat/R$drawable;
        at androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatDrawableManager.<clinit>(AppCompatDrawableManager.java:113)
        at androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatDrawableManager.get(Unknown Source:0)
        at androidx.appcompat.widget.TintTypedArray.getDrawableIfKnown(TintTypedArray.java:86)
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.<init>(AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:260)
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegate.create(AppCompatDelegate.java:182)
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.getDelegate(AppCompatActivity.java:520)
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.onCreate(AppCompatActivity.java:71)
        at my.package.app.abstracts.BaseActivity.onCreate(BaseActivity.java:94)
        at my.package.app.ui.activity_splash.SplashActivity.onCreate(SplashActivity.java:48)
        at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7335)
        at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7326)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1275)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3119)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3282)
        at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:78)
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:108)
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:68)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1970)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7156)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:494)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:975)
     Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "androidx.appcompat.R$drawable" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/my.package.app-ubNE5Y0S9Ec7hNJGohi9Sw==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/my.package.app-ubNE5Y0S9Ec7hNJGohi9Sw==/lib/arm, /data/app/my.package.app-ubNE5Y0S9Ec7hNJGohi9Sw==/base.apk!/lib/armeabi-v7a, /system/lib, /system/vendor/lib]]
        at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:134)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:379)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)
        at androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatDrawableManager.<clinit>(AppCompatDrawableManager.java:113) 
        at androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatDrawableManager.get(Unknown Source:0) 
        at androidx.appcompat.widget.TintTypedArray.getDrawableIfKnown(TintTypedArray.java:86) 
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.<init>(AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:260) 
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegate.create(AppCompatDelegate.java:182) 
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.getDelegate(AppCompatActivity.java:520) 
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.onCreate(AppCompatActivity.java:71) 
        at my.package.app.abstracts.BaseActivity.onCreate(BaseActivity.java:94) 
        at my.package.app.ui.activity_splash.SplashActivity.onCreate(SplashActivity.java:48) 
        at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7335) 
        at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7326) 
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1275) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3119) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3282) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:78) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:108) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:68) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1970) 
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106) 
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7156) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:494) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:975) 


ext.gradlVersion = '3.6.0'
...
classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:$gradlVersion"

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.4-all.zip

Answer 1

First implement multidex into your project then restart android studio and run your app.
If still you face this issue, then you need to downgrade your android studio's stable version 3.5.3

Below Android Studio 3.5 disable Instant run:

Android Studio --> File --> Setting --> Build, execution, deploy --> Instant run.

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Hope this mey help you